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Never forget
English: Mass Grave Memorial in Southern Rwanda, near Bukavu, returns the Genocide of 1994 to mind. Deutsch: Massengrabgedenkstätte in Südruanda, nahe Bukavu, erinnert an den Genozid von 1994. Français : Rwanda victimes du génocide de 1994 Italiano: Vittime di Genocidio del Ruanda (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Anne Frank's [...]
Why the BBC should do grown-up science-fiction
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Schrödinger is stopped by a police officer while driving. Suspicious, the officer opens the boot (trunk, if reading in American). "Mr Schrödinger," he says. "Are you aware that you have a dead cat in your boot?" "I am now," says Schrödinger. This joke divides the world into three groups of people. If you laughed out loud, or chuckled, [...]
HMV, Jessops, Blockbuster — victims of the wired world
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HK Central Building HMV Group shop (Photo credit: Wikipedia) HMV is in administration, Jessops is closed, and, in the last few minutes, we hear the Blockbuster is going into administration as well. It sounds as if the bad old days at the start of the recession of the death of Woolworths and Zavi are back with us. In reality, these three are [...]
The upshot of Leveson — press a part of democracy, not above it
BBC News - Leveson report: Maria Miller urges swift action by press Lord Leveson has given his report on press self-regulation, and matters must now move swiftly on. At the outset I need to admit I have not read his 2,000 page report. I doubt many have. In a sense, it is already irrelevant, because what matters now is not what Leveson said, [...]
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